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    Reminder that the US also sanctioned and blocked UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese from entering the country less than two months ago because they didn’t like her reporting.

    https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/07/1165359

    The USA is no longer an appropriate place to host the UN headquarters.

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      The USA is no longer an appropriate place to host the UN headquarters.

      Never been

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      Yeah because the Swiss are so virtuous and have never ever aligned with nazis.

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        Your comment seems to imply that the placement of the UN HQ and GA is somehow …a reward for a country’s virtue? What kind of silliness is that?

        The choice of placement of the UN HQ&GA should be guided by a simple principle: what place in the world is stable enough, neutral enough and independent from external pressure enough to be the place where representatives of all the countries in the globe, regardless of whether they are good or bad or «good» or «bad» can reliably meet without hindrance under a flag of truce.

        It’s a fucking practical question not a moral one.

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          Ya as much as I hate the Swiss for being neutral throughout all conflicts and rarely picking sides, they’ve become rather well known for being neutral throughout all conflicts and rarely picking sides.

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    That doesn’t seem fair. Maybe it’s time to move the U.N. to a more civilized country.

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    US breaks one of the most important the pillars of the United Nations.

    THE RIGHT OF ALL LEADERS TO ATTEND THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, this is written in the UN charter and the US agreed to let everyone travel to UN meetings in New York when the UN was founded.

    This is an attempt to start the destruction of the UN.

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      Even during the Cold War they never pulled a stunt like this. The American regime is failing hard

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        No its not, it is doing what America has wanted to do and now what its owners have wanted to do for ever.

        Its failing at being decent, it is succeeding at its task to ruin it all.

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      Eh, good. 2 years and going of active genocide and the UN is completely useless. May something better come from its ashes.

      If you still have faith in international bodies like the UN and don’t realize they’re simply pacifying tools to cover for and allow the west to do whatever they want, you’re not paying attention.

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        May something better come from its ashes.

        Don’t hold your breath, such a better version would still require major powers to concede and no major power would join without veto capabilities.
        We need alien ovelords.

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        The West can already do whatever they want because the other global superpower has no interest in butting heads with them; they don’t need the UN for that.

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          My point was not that they need the UN, my point was that the UN is an ineffective body that only enforces what the West (mostly America) want. They will sanction you into poverty for standing up to them, and they’ll veto every effort to punish genocide they are funding. It’s all a big scam.

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      I think a big part of UN should be abolish. Just keep the humanitarian, health and culture entities

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    Trump blocks. Trump.

    Fuck this inbred oompa loompa, and every person that helps him. He spreads his disease while a third of America claps and ignores the clear signs of child rape and genocide.

    This is a creature, a monster. He is a thing, not a being. A creation of wealth, power, and privilege. He should never have reached such a ripe, demented age.

    Our societies have failed us. The United States of America has been compromised.

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        Because Palestinians having a voice in the UN js better than not having a voice in the UN, even if that voice is fucking Mahmoud Abbas.

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          Because Palestinians having a voice in the UN js better than not having a voice in the UN

          How concretly?

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    Must be in preparation for disolving the PA for official annexation. No other explanation for this move sgsinst the traitor Abbas

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      True Abbas is a Quizling who does whatever he’s told. His only use is to legitimise the occupation.